Amazon to introduce whole food delivery across four cities

Amazon will be starting two-hour delivery free of cost from Thursday to its Prime members from Whole Foods markets in areas of Virginia Beach, Dallas, Austin, and Cincinnati.

Stephenie Landry, vice president of Prime Now, Amazon Fresh and Amazon Restaurants said Amazon Prime consumers in those towns will be capable to order preserved produce, meat, seafood, flowers and maximum, though not all, things that their neighborhood Whole Foods stores assets.

She told,“We might not have every last item that could be available in your local store but we’re going to have the vast majority of them”.

Prime users in these cities can work their accounts on the Amazon website or via its Prime Now app, which stars two-hour delivery things and type in their ZIP code to view if the assistance is possible where they live.

The news is the newest in Amazon’s combination of the Whole Foods Market connection of high-end organic supermarkets, which it acquired for $13.7 billion in June. The investment immediately secured it the fifth-biggest grocery retailer in the nation, according to critics at Cowen. Walmart is No. 1, succeeded by Kroger, Costco, and Albertsons.

Butchers made the Amazon logo out of ground beef, which got a latest, lesser price, at the Whole Foods Market in the Playa Vista section of Los Angeles on Sept. 25, 2017.

Amazon dropped rates on few things at the 457 Whole Foods markets in the United States after the contract concluded. Whole Food’s 365 Everyday Value brand things are presently the No. 2 best-selling private label brand on Amazon, according to e-commerce report firm One Click Retail. It accounts as of January, Amazon had 18% of online grocery sales in the United States.

Landry said,”They will pick the items, put them in appropriate packaging to maintain the chill chain and pack them”.

The pickers will not certainly be Whole Foods workers. Landry ended by saying,“We will use a variety of methods”.

The orders will then be given off to Amazon Flex delivery operators. Those are Uber-like engagement motorists who contract on for only Amazon delivery turns utilizing their personal vehicles but Amazon’s routing application. They transport and deliver items for Amazon, Prime Now, grocery delivery service AmazonFresh, Amazon Restaurants and now Whole Foods.

The service will only be accessible through the hours the Whole Foods stores are accessible, usually, 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.

Amazon intends to extend the co-operation further broadly in the future.